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however, could be immeasurably increasd by declarations
from the leaders in the United States that the fate of the
United States to being detemined at this moment on the
battlefields of Europe, that eventually the United States
must fight for the preservation of its existence, that a
realistic demonstration of courage with a modicum of offensive 
measures now is worth the most extensive plans and the
most colossal measures of defense in the future and that
the immediate injection of the United States into the
struggle on the side of right would constitute no more than
an act of self-preservation in which the risk entailed may 
be no greater now than later and in which the chance of
turning the tide of success may be regarded as more favorable.
 
 
It is true that the American people in order to unite
in action must be convinced that a peaceful solution of the
present conflict is impossible, that only the employment
of force remains, and that they are the ultimate arbiters of
the destinies of mankind under the order which has hitherto
prevailed. To that end, the Government of the United States
should submit ot the belligerent governments confidentially
and without consultation with foreign elements proposals for
a peace which is regarded as compatible with an ordered
world. If that peace is rejected, and it is scarcely a matter
of conjecture as to the side from which that rejection
 
 
would